4501-15-02
Taillights, registration lights and stop lights.

(A)
Taillights and license plate lights shall
be constructed and installed so as to provide adequate and reliable
illumination and shall conform to the appropriate S.A.E. standards for
taillights and license plate lights.

(B)
Every motor vehicle, motorcycles and
motor-driven cycles, shall have at least one tail lamp. On a combination of
vehicles, only the tail lamps on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen
from the distance specified. On vehicles equipped with more than one tail lamp,
the lamps shall be mounted on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as
practicable.

Every tail lamp upon every vehicle shall be located at a height
of not more than seventy-two inches nor less than fifteen inches.

(C)
When stop lights are used as
authorized by section
4511.39 of
the Revised Code, they shall be constructed and installed so as to provide
adequate and reliable illumination and shall conform to the appropriate S.A.E.
standards for stop lamps.

(1)
After January
1, 1967, every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer shall be
equipped with two or more stop lamps, except that passenger cars manufactured
or assembled prior to January 1, 1967, and motorcycles and motor-driven cycles
shall be equipped with at least one stop lamp. On a combination of vehicles,
only the stop lamps on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen from the
distance specified in this rule.

(2)
Any vehicle may be equipped and when
required under this rule shall be equipped with a stop lamp or lamps on the
rear of the vehicle which shall display a red light, visible from a distance of
not less than three hundred feet to the rear in normal sunlight, and which
shall be actuated upon application of the service (foot) brake, and which may
but need not be incorporated with one or more other rear lamps.

(3)
Every stop light shall be located at a
height of not more than seventy-two inches nor less than fifteen inches.

(4)
If a high mounted stop lamp is
installed it shall be located at a minimum height of thirty-four inches in
height.